Competition for Prisons: Public Or Private?
- ISBN-10
- 1447313224
- ISBN-13
- 9781447313229
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Author
- Julian Le Vay
Description
This book re-assesses the benefits and failures of competition, how public and private prisons compare, the impact of competition on the public sector’s performance, and how well Government has managed this ‘quasi-market’.
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